Two employees of the same Springfield warehouse told police they were kidnapped by a masked man in the middle of the night.

In separate incidents, the victims said the masked man allegedly forced the victims to drive out to a rural cemetery where they were ordered out of their vehicles and onto the ground.

One victim said he was shocked with a stun gun, while the other man was allegedly beaten, Maced, forced to strip naked and photographed.

During the assault, the victims were allegedly told to quit their jobs at ROi, a local medical supply company where they worked.

The abductions reportedly ended the same way, with the victims being taken back home and dropped off with everything except their cellphones.

The masked man reportedly told one of the victims he had a list of people he was going to “get.”

More than six months after the reported abductions, the Springfield Police Department decided this week to suspend its investigation.

Detectives say they exhausted all leads and the victims are not being fully cooperative. So for now, police are moving on.

The News-Leader acquired the full investigative report from the case which details how two employees of ROi, a medical supply company that works closely with Mercy Hospital, were reportedly kidnapped at gunpoint in the middle of the night.

The alleged victims said their kidnappers had intimate knowledge about their personal lives and their work at ROi.

The report says police questioned a former ROi employee about the incidents, but investigators seem to suspect the abductions were drug-related.

In a statement issued through a Mercy Hospital spokeswoman, ROi officials say they bolstered security at their Springfield facility after hearing about the reports.

“After learning about the assaults of two ROi co-workers, ROi immediately stepped up security with additional security officers and patrols of the property and parking lot around the clock,” the statement says. “ROi also held meetings to alert all ROi co-workers of the situation and answer any questions or concerns. A security officer was on hand to provide critical common sense safety precautions.

“Throughout the investigation, ROi has worked closely with law enforcement.”

First reported incident

Springfield police first got involved in the case on Aug. 20, when an ROi employee called 911 to say he had been kidnapped and assaulted.

The man said he was leaving his residence at the Old Monterey Apartments in Springfield at 2:30 a.m. on Aug. 20 to go to work when a masked man wearing gloves and a camouflage jacket came out from behind the victim’s car and brandished a gun.

When the victim confronted the masked man, according to the report, the suspect pointed the gun in the victim’s face and ordered him to drive his car onto Battlefield Road as the masked man sat in the back seat.

The man continued giving directions to the victim until they arrived at Patterson Cemetery on Farm Road 143, where the man told the victim to get out and lie face-down on the ground, according to the report.

The man allegedly then began kicking and punching the victim, as well as shocking him with a stun gun and spraying him in the face with pepper spray. The report says the victim was beaten so badly that a wound on his head required staples to close.

During the assault, the report says, the masked man criticized the victim’s life choices and also denounced ROi.

The report says the victim was on the ground for about two hours as the masked man made “random comments that alluded to his hatred of ROi and (the victim’s) need to change his life.”

The masked man allegedly said he had a list of people he was going to “get,” and the victim was getting off easy.

While the victim was on the ground, his cellphone — which he had hidden under his seat in the car — started making noise, the report says.

The masked man then retrieved the phone and looked through it for something, although he did not say what, according to the report.

Before leaving, the report says, the masked man made the victim undress and then took photos of him naked.

The man then drove the victim back to the Old Monterey Apartments and let him out, according to the report.

The cellphone was the only thing that was reported stolen during the encounter.

Police obtained a search warrant in September that gave them access to the records for the victim’s phone. Police hoped cellphone tower information, call records and GPS software in the phone would help them track down the suspect, but the report does not mention if the phone records revealed anything relevant to the case.

Second reported incident

As police were investigating the August kidnapping report, they connected it to a very similar case from July involving another ROi employee.

On July 22, another ROi employee left his home to go to work at about 2:30 a.m.

Just after the victim sat down in the driver’s seat of his truck, the report says, the rear passenger door opened, and a masked man pointed a gun into the vehicle.

The masked man got in the back seat of the victim’s vehicle and ordered the victim to drive to the cemetery on Farm Road 143.

As the victim was driving, the masked man searched through the victim’s phone but did not say what he was looking for, according to the report.

Once the victim got to the cemetery, the masked man ordered the victim out of the vehicle and onto the ground, the report says.

In this case, the victim was on the ground for about an hour as the masked man lectured him and shocked him five times with a stun gun, according to the report.

The masked man allegedly told the victim to put in his two weeks notice and quit ROi.

The report says the masked man knew personal details about the victim and his children.

As in the other case, the only thing reported stolen was the victim’s cellphone.

The report says police obtained a warrant for the victim’s cellphone records, but the information did not produce anything relevant to the investigation.

The investigation stalls

Both alleged victims told police they did not know who kidnapped them or why.

Police interviewed a supposedly disgruntled former ROi employee as part of the investigation, but the report does not indicate police found anything suspicious about that person.

The accounts given by the victims suggest the kidnappings might have been carried out by two different people.

The Aug. 20 victim described his kidnapper as 5-foot-7 to 5-foot-9, while the July 22 victim said his kidnapper was 6 foot or taller.

The masked man in Aug. 20 incident also allegedly told the victim that someone else had carried out the July kidnapping.

Within a couple of months of the reports, the detective assigned to the case had both of the alleged victims take polygraph tests.

The report says one victim failed the polygraph test, and the result of the other victim’s polygraph test was “deception indicated.”

In deciding to suspend the investigation on Tuesday, Detective Chris McPhail said the suspect or suspects were obviously targeting these specific victims.

“The suspect(s) knew where both (victims) lived, worked and what time they left for work,” McPhail said. “This does not appear to be a random act.”

ROi, which stands for Resource Optimization & Innovation, says on its website that it was founded by Chesterfield-based Mercy Health, and that it “is widely considered the most advanced and integrated provider-owned supply chain organization in health care.” Supply chain organizations typically take advantage of the size of their orders on behalf of clients to negotiate discounts with manufacturers and distributors.

The business was first registered in 2002, according to filings on the Missouri Secretary of State’s website.

ROi’s website indicates that it has offices in St. Louis, a distribution center in Earth City and a 100,000-square-foot “consolidated services center” in Springfield. Its Springfield facility is located at 2909 N. Neergard Ave., along Interstate 44.